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Re: New insns for the s390 backend (2)


 > From: Roger Sayle <roger@eyesopen.com>
 > 
 > Hi Richard,
 > 
 > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Richard Henderson wrote:
 > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:19:12PM -0600, Roger Sayle wrote:
 > > > .  Perhaps a safer approach is a __builtin_fmadd (perhaps
 > > > even on all platforms using a default mult-then-add implementation
 > > > when a special isnsn isn't available), and then guard the implicit
 > > > use of fmadd with flag_unsafe_math_optimization.
 > >
 > > We should have this at minimum because of c99's fma function.
 > 
 > Oops!  You walked right into that one...  Just like the fma builtin
 > in Kaveh's C99 math builtins patch, which is awaiting review at:
 > 
 > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-08/msg00309.html
 > 
 > Many thanks in advance :>
 > Roger

No need, Jim W just reviewed it for me.  Thanks though Roger. :-)

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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu


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